CVE-2008-4580: Gentoo Cman

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

fence_manual, as used in fence 2.02.00-r1 and possibly cman, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the fence_manual.fifo temporary file.

Affected products

  • Gentoo Cman: version 2.02.00 only
  • Gentoo Fence: version 2.02.00 only

Published 2008-10-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.